Education

On July 22-26, Carroll County High School FFA chapter, along with 23 different chapters from across Kentucky, attended FFA Leadership Training Center in Hardinsburg. There were 319 students and advisors that went to the fifth annual training for chapter officers and committee members.

Each member of the Carroll County FFA officer team participated in classes to help train them in the most effective methods of running a chapter.

With the summer coming to an end there are many celebrations and recognition to JCTC faculty, staff, and students. Recently the college has started a faculty/staff/student “shout-out” to recognize those achievements.

Faculty member Joe Carhart, along with colleagues from Assurex Health, Inc., will have research published in the academic journal, Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. The publication relates to some of the content Carhart teaches in his psychology classes at the Carrollton Campus.

After-school programming will now be available for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Carroll County Schools received a second 21st Century Community Learning Center grant, totaling $637,500 over the next five years. The grant is worth $150,000 per year for the first three years, $112,500 in year four and $75,000 in year five, and the school district can apply for continuation funding after five years, Director of Public Relations Jeff Fremin said in a Jan. 30 News-Democrat article.

Noah William White of Carrollton, a 2013 graduate of Berea College, having earned his bachelor’s degree in history and Asian studies, has been accepted into the highly competitive Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, which is administered by the Japanese government, in cooperation with 38 other national governments, and is the world’s largest exchange teaching program.

White will be an assistant language teacher in two public junior high schools, (seventh through ninth grades), in Oji, Japan, which is in the larger Nara Prefecture.

The 21st Century Community Learning Center held its first session of summer camp July 8-19. The second session began July 22 and will end Aug. 2. The children kept cool on the last day of camp by taking turns on the water slide and eating popsicles.

Time 2 Invent Club held its first meeting Monday, July 7, at Cartmell. Meetings will be held Mondays and Wednesdays until July 24. Students in fourth through eighth grade will come from 1-2 p.m., while students in kindergarten to third grade will come from 2-3 p.m.